SNCY vs. HA, VLRS, SPCE, SAVE, ALGT, MESA, ULCC, JBLU, TK, and SB
Should you be buying Sun Country Airlines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sun Country Airlines include Hawaiian (HA), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Frontier Group (ULCC), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Teekay (TK), and Safe Bulkers (SB).
Sun Country Airlines (NASDAQ:SNCY) and Hawaiian (NASDAQ:HA) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Sun Country Airlines has a net margin of 6.48% compared to Hawaiian's net margin of -10.90%. Sun Country Airlines' return on equity of 14.35% beat Hawaiian's return on equity.
Sun Country Airlines has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hawaiian. Hawaiian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Country Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sun Country Airlines has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hawaiian has a beta of 2.37, meaning that its stock price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hawaiian received 422 more outperform votes than Sun Country Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.36% of users gave Hawaiian an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Sun Country Airlines an outperform vote.
Sun Country Airlines currently has a consensus price target of $19.17, suggesting a potential upside of 78.29%. Hawaiian has a consensus price target of $11.33, suggesting a potential downside of 16.73%. Given Sun Country Airlines' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Sun Country Airlines is more favorable than Hawaiian.
In the previous week, Hawaiian had 17 more articles in the media than Sun Country Airlines. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Hawaiian and 3 mentions for Sun Country Airlines. Sun Country Airlines' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Hawaiian's score of 0.31 indicating that Sun Country Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.2% of Hawaiian shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Sun Country Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Hawaiian shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Sun Country Airlines beats Hawaiian on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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